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Harmony Articles Part III
Holy Days to Historical Perspectives

This portion of the Harmony Area offers articles that span topics from the importance of understanding why the High Holy Days are just more than biblical ritual to knowing biblical history reveals more of the big picture for everyone—Jew and Gentile together.

Specific titles for additional articles are found in Parts I and II.

Here are a few points covered in the articles listed here

At sunset
this evening, we began the season of the WAKE UP CALL; Rosh Hashana;
but more accurately and biblically known as the Feast of Trumpets; YOM T’RUAH; The Day of Blowing the Shofar; the Day of the Wake Up Call. There’s
good reason for calling it that, y’know. Even though God established
this day, the Torah leaves us pretty clueless about how to celebrate
it, except for telling us that its centerpiece is the shofar; the
ram’s horn.

There’s
just no missing the fact that - if you do nothing else on this
first day of the month of Tishri, you MUST blow the shofar, and
you blow the shofar for only one reason:

... Such was God's way of announcing
the final birth pains before Israel's miraculous deliverance. Ushered
in with the blood of a spotless male lamb, the Lord's Passover
would be an event so profound as to effect a new beginning in the
Hebrew calendar (Exodus 12:2); so significant that it would be
memorialized even before its occurrence (12:14). Yet, as if the magnitude of this occasion were not grand enough, God has choreographed
in the Passover a far greater deliverance; one whose world-changing
effects would reach into eternity itself! But first, a glimpse
into God's original ''pesach''...
(from The Lamb of God in Passover)

I didn’t KNOW God created an annual
cycle of 7 holy days. I didn’t KNOW that package of 7 holy days was a
panorama of God’s plan to redeem the world. (see timeline Table 3)

I had NO IDEA that my destiny
and yours is determined by how we respond to that magnificent plan
to save us. I didn’t have a clue that all those millions of
animal sacrifices at the temple for all those hundreds of years
were a big fat neon sign telling ME—thousands of years later—that I need an innocent sacrifice
if my sins would be forgiven.

And if you would have asked me
about Sukkot, I may have told you it’s the Jewish version
of Thanksgiving, or that it’s the closest thing to camping
Jews do, since that 40 year campout-thing we did in the wilderness!!!

But I would NEVER have known
to tell you... that the OVERWHELMING theme of Sukkot—the Feast
of Tabernacles—is the Glory of God. (from Sukkot — He 'Tabernacles' With Us)

'...
Do you want a God who is less than holy? I
don't. I want a holy, perfect God. Like Groucho
Marks once said, "I don't want to belong to
a club that would have me as a member!" Now
if you think about that it's good sense. I
don't want to belong to a God, or accepted
by a God, who winks at sin... I want a holy
God.

'God's
holiness is essential to Yom Kippur. It's spoken
of 87 times in the book of Leviticus alone,
and a bit more than another word, which is
spoken 86 times... lets see if we can spot
it. In verses 14 and 15... (from Yom Kippur Identifies Messiah)

Welcome to the first in a series of talks on a Survey of
Old Testament History, as viewed through Jewish eyes. In what follows, we explore
the sweep of time from the moment of creation through the Inter-testamental
Period, beyond the end of the Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament. (from Historical Overview ... )

We observe some of the many examples of history in which the interaction of Jews and Gentiles have led to a most beneficial outcome. That coming together is for the purpose of solving a real need and the outcome is invariably most positive—often far beyond the original need! (from Harmony in the Hebrew Bible - Introduction )

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